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Phltdrlphii, Mondi). September S, 19M
, THE MAYOR'S THRIFT ORDER
MAiUK .MUUU1-; S oilier tor u liruniUB
ot utiil;i'l-i in uli iiiiiiiiiipin ilpimituiPlili
U liidiciitlvi' of ii deiirp in the Ailnilnlctrn
tion to lomlm t the affnlrn of the city ac
cording to Rood business rule".
The avenue politician is not it cnod
buslnesn num. lie doesn't want to be a
good business man.
He prefers to encourage and cherish a
belief thnt the City (Jovcrnmcnt need ob
serve none of the rules ordinarily necessary
to keep every business organization out of
bankruptcy.
And the odd thing is the disposition of
taxpayers to be guided by his fantastic rea
soning. w
There la o limit to the financial strains
that the city and IN taxpayers can i-tnnil.
Mr. Moore Is wisely aware of this. He has
done only what business men everywhere
are dolns. and his course in thli instance Is
similar to that which the Federal (Jovern
incnt itself Is following.
Hut his method of reasoning will caile
irang men to Mierr and prate. For It is a
method that always must be destructive to
the prosperity of political organization thnt
normally fatten on municipal extravagance
and waste.
FEE-GRABBING AND PROMISES
THE spectacle of William K. Campbell,
gang candidate for Iteistcr of Wills,
refusing to make pre-election promises would
be touching wore it not that the pledge from
which he shrinks would mean a correspond
ing shrinkage of his own pocket book. Thomas
Watson, the Varcs' choice for City Treas
urer, reveals a similar ethical inspiration.
As any one at all acquainted with machine
politics 1r aware, the agony of even going
through the motions of renouncing fee
grabbing in either of the two offices no
torious for this abuse must be acute.
Arthur G. Graham, Voters League can
didate for City Treasurer, hns not hesi
tated to declare that the legal salary of
$10,000 a year "should be enough" for any
incumbent of that position. Sentiment's
along this line hnve alo been oxpros-od by
Vivian Frank Gable, running for- Register
of Wills on the Voters League ticket in the
prlrovt""-
The law would remain unshattered should
Messrs. Campbell and Watson echo the.se
declarations. The reluctance which they
have displayed ill conforms with the pirati
cal code Their present sham punctilio is
a weak substitute for forthright deilariitlons
of a program of loot.
If they Intend to rob the city, why not"
ay so?
Then there would be no violent shock
If, In the event of their election, the dis
gracefully traditional policy of fee-grabbing
were maintained as it would be.
SHIPS THAT PASS
IF THE present (schedule is maintained
passenger tiade betwe. n this port and
abroad will be represented this month by
the arrival of h single vessel, the White
Star liner Haverford.
The. Italian liners which formerly plied
between here and Genou have been diverted
elsewhere. Little has developed from the
few timid calls of the French ships nf the
Fabrc Company. Traffic in passengers be
tween this city and Europe is almost non
existent. For once, however, the conventional
explanation, lack of local enterprise, u in
applicable. The situation is a direct con
sequence of the complex and baffling new
Immigration Law based upon n quota .sh.
tern that seems proof against rational in
terpretation. New York ha been reg.i'eil with the
spectacle of ships racing to quarantine on
the rlrst of every month The winner Inml
their passengers. Infractions of the quota
rules mean deportation.
The result is a pooling of steamship in
terests, which has brought about n limitation
of the number of liners in lonunlssion and
the withdraw-ill of several of these from
Philadelphia.
As a depressant, of commerce the new
law of proportionaMinmigration Is wrentheil
In laurels.
AFTER THE TROOPS LIGHT!
T U''' """ lt ua" '"u,l '" I he Senate
XJ that conditions in the soft -coal regions
of West Virginia were such as to wurrant
,' a congressional investigation
Such an investigation will .hnve to he
OTdered In Washington, if it is not made
Unnecessary b a general and earnest snrvcv
of the mine war ami its causes by the
Legislature of Wen Virginia.
In previous instances of similar disorder
if has been, argued that the trouble-makers
I were "Ignorant foreigners under radical
t leadership" or avowed Rolshevlsts or men
Tvith a plan to overthrow the Government.
Such explanations usually tatislied public
opinion.
They will not satisfy public opinion now
, ' The miners of West Virginia are for the
rnost part of native parentage. They are
, y'rly Intelligent men with long traditions
Hi loyalty and patriotism behind them.
sv ,j. It is not easy to assume that men accus-
,.,-tvmcu in hums iii pence anil woiKing hard
will mobilize without warning as enemies
of the established order of gou-rmncnt or
as opponents, of recognized authority be
cause of a whim or an imagined grievance.
l'he President did right In ordering thg
troops to West Virginia. Rut since it was
necessary for the Government to exert its
.power to quell the disorder, it is necessary
for the Government to determine the exact
causes of the tumult.
t At the moment when thT lirst Federal
roldler entered (he soft-coal region the prole
bm In West Virginia became broader than
tne State.
II bi ntm a matter of national concern
nHdVtio lalio'ut wjiteli Jhe people hhvo a right
t f "vyfWtfpriuril, I" order tint the In
stlttitlrins of their Government need not be
menaced In the future either by mobn or by
continuing demands for the use of the nrmy
ns n police force.
SHALL THE LOOTERS BE
ASKED TO COME BACK?
The Voters Closed the Door on Them
Two Years Ago, but Went Away
and Forgot to Lock It
A1MIEN Mr. Taft said that the good Lord
' looked after fools, drunken men and
the I'nited States he did not make his state
ment Inclusive enough. When he was
speaking of the I'nited States he thought
on'y of Its foreign relations. He could have
said with equal truth that the good' Lord
looks after the American cities.
Some power must watch over them, for
their citizens do not. Occasionally they
make n spasmodic effort to protect them
selves against the rapacity of their political
exploiters. Rut they Immediately sink back
into their old lethargy and leave their honest
officials without any moral support. '
Look nt what has hnppened right here
In Philadelphia within the last two years!
The voters by a narrow margin nominated
for the mayoralty a man opposed to running
the City Government for the benefit of a
gioup of contractors. He was overwhelm
ingly elected, but with a bare majority in
the City Council pledged to his support.
Within a short time after the new men
entered office three Councilmen made a
dicker with the contractor Councilmen and
began to tight Mayor Moore.
Wns there any expression of popular in
dignation nt this bctrnal of the voters who
elected them' Not so jou could hear lt
The Major has had to carry on his tight
nlmoM alone. The reputable citizens sup
posed to have a stake In decent and economi
cal Government have stayed away from his
office when they should hnve flocked there
with assurances of support.
About the only interest the big financial
men haxe shown In what the Mayor is doing
was a few weeks ago when n delegation of
them called on hihi to urge him to sign the
gas ordinance, which would mnke a present
of about S5.000.000 to the U. G. I, Com
pany. These men did not care a picayune about
the plain people who have to provide the
revenues of the l', G. I. Coinpanj. The
wrn- out after their own pockets because
they were Interested in public utilities com
panics, just ns the Contractor Combine in
terests itself In politics because it can thus
increase Its profits from contracts with the
elt..
The -i ity is now on the eve of another
election, nt which it Is to be decided whether
the Contractor Combine i.s to come back or
whether the people who nominated Mayor
Moore are to continue their tight against
the system which permits the political con
tractors to award contracts to themselves on
their own terms.
Rut there is no evidence yet that the
people are interested In the issue. The
matter is really to be decided at the pri
maries two weeks from tomorrow, when the
candidates for office nre to be nominated.
No one can vote effectively at these pri
maries unless he or she Is registered as a
Republican, for the right is to be in the
Republican primaries.
On the first registration day last week
fewer citizens qualified to vote than qualified
two jears ago on the corresponding day.
And jet this jear the women ns well as
the men may vote.
The man In the street ts nylng that "The
gang is coming back." and with an in
different smile. "Oh. you can't beat the
gang. It is on the job nil the time."
When they discuss '(hi: matter further thej
are wont to say: "Ed Vare is a good fel
low. Look at the coal he gives away in
the winter! He takes care of the fellows,
and jou can't beat a man like thnt." -,
Rut what happens when the gan; gets
Into office?
I'nder the predecessor to Major Moore
the tax rate wus raised so that it was
hlghpr than ever before in a generation.
The unthinking men who got their tax
bills denounced the old Administration for
its extravagance. It is a Government of rob
bers, they said. Rut they did not remember
thnt they were parties to thii "robbery."
They were responsible for t lie 'kind of men
in office. Their otis tmt them there, ami
they had onlj themselves to blame when
their tux bill was almost doubled without
any increase in the actual value of their
property. .
If the evidence of it were not before our
eyes it would be impossible to believe that
men and women could be so stupidly and
persistentlj unintelligent.
. The opportunity is invariably offered to
them to make a choice between men com
mitted to the exploitation of the city bj
the Contractor Combine and men committed
to opposition lo sui Ii exp'oitution.
It seldom happens thnt the opposition
inndidates nre ideal, hut even when It is a
choice between two evils the part of wisdom
is to choose the lesser. Yet the history of
the city proves that the voters are In the
habit, with rare cxi eptioie, of choosing
the greater evil.
The voters nre to have a choice this
month when they go to the primaries. The
gang is confident that the voters will choose
its candidates. It is milking no pretense
of safeguarding the resources of the people,
but it is frankly out for nil that it can
make out of tiie contiol of the patronage of
and out of the large fees paid into some
of the offices.
"We need the money In our business,"
the gang says in effect, "and we Intend to
get it "
Rut it can get it only with the consent
of the voters.
Will they give it?
AUSTIN DOBSON
IT LS unlikely that epnapiiM on Austin
Iiodsoii vlll swamp toe magazines, that
"forward-looking" iiterar.v circ,es will ills,
cuss his works or that many monuments will
be erei ted to his meinnrj .
For Dobson, at least in the tullight of
his career, was an outmoded craftsman.
From his polished pen the world is heir to
no "message" to shatter governments or
to upraise them.
It U impossible to deduce from his writ
ings a theory of psycho-analysis, of eco
nomic and social welfare, of peace or war,
of male, female or child suffrage, of rela
tlvltj or the imponderability of matter.
What should such fellows as this do
crawling between earth and heaven?
Fale seems to have supplied the answer.
Dobson in his eighth decade he died on
Saturday at eighty-one was symbolical of
superfluity.
His delicate and exquisitely wrought verses
nre too clear and objective to be exhaustively
probed for their "philosophy."
Dr. Frank Crane can draw from them
not a sjn" recipe for material urrest n,,r
con Senator Rorali. derive from their con
EVEKINGT PUBLIC LEDGl&Hi
tents a single confirmation of the calamities
of this spinning sphere.
In Austin Dobson. who gave to the world
jts first ballade in English, who grnced the
difficult artificial forms of versa with n
delicate sensibility unprecedented In our
tongue, who balanced tenderness, fancy and
wit with the most sedulous nicety, there
Is littlo that does not denote nn almost out
moded simplicity of purpose.
The goal was charm, nu effect produced
by expert technique based upon the subtlest
appreciation of verbal values. If mere lit
erary ambition detached from propaganda,
Inflated platitudes and ponderous glorifica
tions of the obvious can be called mcan,
such nn nlm was Austin Dobson's.
His "limitations" mav bo discerned In
his lines "On a Fan." "The Ladles of St.
TnmcsV and "Oood-nlght, Rabette." He
held, as be hoped to hold, "his pen In
trust for nrt."
And that wns nil he did.
Relievers in that sort of thing will re
read Ills graceful rondeaux, triolets, ballades,
vignettes In rhyme nnd vlllanelles.
To the rest his pursuit will seem nat
row, ns lt did at the close of ft long life
that ended almost in obscurity.
NOMINATE WOLF
THE voters who wish the affairs of the
Controller's office managed lu their in
terest will support the nomination of Edwin
Wolf.
He is a business man of large experience;
He has Rome comprehension of the prin
ciples, of municipal finance.
He Is controlled by no one. and If elected
will co-operate with the Mayor nud the
independent members of the Council in the
protection of the Interests of all the people.
WHIR. Hadley, who was appointed to fili
the vacancy caused by the death of Con
troller Walton, wns never regarded as more
tlio.ii a stop-gap. He is not a financier, but
merely an expert accountant.
Yet he seems to be the kind of man that
the Contractor Combine wishes to have at
the head of the office which administers the
financial affairs of the city.
There is no comparison between the two
candidates. Mr. Wolf stands so far abovo
Mr. Hadley in experience and abJHty that
if the nomination were to be dfplded on
merit Mr. Wolf would get nil the votes.
Rut putting merit nslde, self-Interest
ought to induce the voters to nominate Mr.
Wolf, for the man who votes for Mr. Wolf
votes for the protection of his own pocket
book, while the man who votes for the
Contractor Conbin,e candidate votes to mnke
it ealer for the members of the Combine
to carry out their purposes.
A FRENCH INVERSION
HISTORY ma.v, of course, leprcsent all
the menu tilings which Gibbon, entitled
to speak with authority , said of it, but as
an instructor it is not entiielj futile.
Premier Rriand. If Is now reported, will
convoke the French Parliament before leav
ing for America this autumn. Opponents
to his self-nppolntment to head the delega
tion of his nation nt the Washington Dis
armament Conference will thus be enabled
to express themselves freely concerning his
proposed pilgrimage. Much steam will
doubtless be emitted.
Rriand. lt Is said, believes that he can
survive the explosions, it will be interest
ing to compare his method with those vvJiich
in another part of the world enlivened n
comparatively recent past.
France has long been fnmed for her In
vulnerability todo'iitlon. Rriand's resolve
to face the worst as speedily as possible is
typical. He will probably come to Wash
ington with the indignntion of his rivals
ringing in hi" cxnerleiited ears.
SHORf CUTS
It wns Nippon tuck ot Forest Hills.
It is really and truly Labor Day in n
newspaper office.
Justice Leach, of Paoli, draws blood
with everj sucker.
The only thing the nvernge citizen
registers is ennui.
He wns a gross flatterer who said the
weather was changeable.
Registration seems to show that the
Weather is a rotten old gangster.
If war were not still a possibility the
matter of Yap would be unimportant.
"Cut to the bone." snys the Mayor.
And then to rench the marrow of economy
use nn ax.
.lodge Landis has been sentenced and
has Jiot yet shown evidences of putting in
an appeal.
Tile monoplnnc that went three miles
without nn engine was perhaps trnveling on
its reputntioit.
A flat pocketbook by precept nnd ex
ample helps to deflate the pride-inflated
chest of Mars.
(ih. well, a man is entitled to his fun.
He lonfs.on registration day and pays for
it Inter In taxes.
lt is easy to make a slate, said 'the
Amateur Politician but hard to get a pencil
that doesn't scratch.
Judge Landis says he Is too busy to
tnlk. Well, perhaps he wouldn't be so busy
if he had only one job
"Montgomery Tax Fixers All in .lam
Over New Rates." Headline. Heaven
preserve us. a pretty pickle.
,1. P. Morgan's Emopenn trip hns. of
course, no political or tlnauiiul significant e
He Is merely taking the air.
Why this present excitement over a
message from Mars? Haven't we been
getting 'em since 1 1 1 1 4 V
"An excursion, not war." said the
doughboys on their way to West Virginia.
Ever body hope's they nre true prophets.
Miss Emily Fish is the new barber on
board the liner Olympic Poor Fish is the
name of the man whose place she took.
With L'ncle Sum In charge. West Vir
ginia citizens can afford to be peaceful
but, unfortunately, they may not know it.
Justice of the Peace Yerkes should
have a "thank you" signon the border of
Millbourne: "Mlllbourne. Come again.
Thank you.'
The 1. "0,000 meters of the wireless wave
Marconi thinks came from Mars give less
concern to the nvernge citizen than the one
little meter that ticks in the cellar.
Sny no word against the gangster He
docs-his duty, nt least, in his attention to
politics; and if he runs the country It ih
because others won't tnke the trouble.
Telegraph and telephone company pro
tests against Postoffice control of radio tele
phones nre evidently based on the belief thnt
such control will upset thu very syllables
of the hello business.
Perhaps the Federal troops will be nhlo
to give the citizens of West Virginia. In
cluding miners and mine owners, the rights
nrcorded to thrni under the Federal Con"
stitutlnu and no more.
.
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Difficulties of Teaching Are Many
and When Teachers Becomo Dis
couraged a Vicious Circle Is
Started, Hard to Overcomo
By SARAH I). LOWRIE
I WAS talking to a woman who is n pro
fessor in one of the New Englnnd col
leges about what she called "the Rryn Mawr
Experiment." -She said that she wished It
could be duplicated in Iicr college, but that
- lt took too much money for most women's
colleges to undertake it summer school for
working women above and over all the ordi
nary running expenses.
Of course, the students, who nre mostly
the business or factory girls, hnd to have
scholarships to cover the cost of their board,
tuition hnd traveling expenses. This hnd to
be guaranteed by nu initial sum raised b a
commltteo of responsible persons, nnd
whorever n girl or her friends or her trades
union body or her firm could not meet her
expenses wholly or In part, this guarantee
covered the deficits.
Resides this sunplementlng, I understand
thnt, as in all colleges, the fees for tuition,
etc.. are placed lower than the actual cost;
that the general guarantee fund covered
that deficit also.
Of course, no Harvard or Princeton or
University of Pennsylvania student begins
to pay for the actual cost of his education
at any of these plncca of learning, and the
students at the Rryn Mawr. summer school,
therefore, were no more indebted to Rryn
Mawr College for their tuition than nre
most college men nnd women.
THE New England college professor went
on to sny that she would hnve enjoyed
the work of teaching those classes, nnd was
nt the same time rather dubious ns to her
nbllity to simplify sufficiently to reach her
class without bewildering some of the mem
bers. She had heard some confessions of
failure from one or two of the teachers who
had tackled the job, and they were feeling
n very healthy chagrin, she said. They had
not beon up against stupidity or indiffer
ence, but against their own inadaptability
to n group of pupils who were unaccus
tomed to thinking along certain lines nnd
whose vocabulary wns limited, partly be
cause some of them wero actually foreign
born nnd partly because the subjects under
discussion were perfectly, unfamiliar.
Even the teachers that wero old hands nt
lecturing to general classes, such as one finds
nt Chnutauquas ond University Extension
lectures, were boffled nt first to find their
aft et noon sessions difficult because of the
drowsiness of the pupils. That drowsiness
wns dingnosed finnlly ns not due to the stu
pidity of either teachers or scholars, but to
the unwonted henvinessof the midday meal.
What saved the situation for both teachers
and pupils, however, was the work of the
go-betweens, the senior class members who
hail volunteered to net ns tutors during the
summer. Each senior hnd n group of girls
assigned to her for whom she was made
responsible both ns to what they prepared
for their classes and as to their generni
well-being and nt-hotneness in the college.
The relationship cstabllbhcd by this means
was exceedingly pleasant.
ONE girl on submitting n pnper to the
professor spoke doubtfully of Its merits
ns she handed it in, remarking that she had
not hnd time to let her "lady friend" look
over it.
In matters of discipline there seems to
hove been a student-regulating body to which
the dean submitted nil vexed questions. One
lnstnnce of mistaken activity wns told to me
as n sample of how successfully this body
of monitors coped with novel situations.
It npponrs that at the beginning of the
college term there was a group of girls who
were fired with the spirit of orgnnlzntion to
such a degree thnt they set about organizing
the domestic force of the college with n view
todemnnding nn eight-hour day. time nnd
overtime and fixed scale of wages with n
minimum clnuse. The imprnctlcabiilty of
this wns brought home to the would -he or
gunizcrs, not by the college authorities, but
by a eoiBjinlttce of their own fellow clash
men. nnd the matter dropped by their own
volition.
MY FRIEND, the New England profes
sor. in" summing up the experience ns
she hnd gleaned it from some of the par
ticipating faculty, said that what the
teachers vnlued most in the whole experience
was their contnet with girls who hungered
and thirsted after knowledge.
So much of their life effort went to press,
ing knowledge upon indifferent nnd even
unwilling pupils thnt this experience gnve
them a new sense of the value of their pro
fession. 'IJie pity of it wns to them that
there were such thousands of eager girls who
wanted an education that they could not
spare the money to stop nnd seek, nnd, on
the other hrind, such thousands of glris who
could hnve it'nnd did not want it.
SHE said that it wns their daily contnet
with the indifferent nnd unwilling "pupils
that made teaching n lienrtbrenking profes.
sion. nnd the teachers themselves so often
seem uninspired nfter they had been at the
work for ten years or more It created a
sort of vicious circle, she thought.
The teachers lost heart nnd their pupils
lost any desire to be teachers because of the
fagged, dispirited aspect of some of even the
presumedly successful educators. With
fewer and fewer girls of promise entering
the ranks of teachers the feAvpr inspiring
teachers there were, nnd so on!
I thought thnt I had never heard any one
so discouraged. I wondered if perhaps we
ns a public in America were not rather
hard and unceremonious with the men and
women to whom vvc hand over the coming
generation for preparation for life
Theirs 'is u very honorable position, in a
way the most honorablr nud trusted in the
community. I sometimes wonder if we
honor ourselves by honoring them enough
publicly ns well ns privntely
Today'e Anniversaries
J7.VJ The first theatre m the American
Polo lies wus opened at Williamsburg, then
the capital of Virginia.
18112 Twenty thousand persons perished
when the city 't Aleppo was destroyed by
nn earthquake.
1V2" Lord Goderieh became Rritish Pre
mier. ,
I s,7i Three women of the Paris Com
mune were sentenced to death for setting
houses on fire with petroleum.
187 Labor Day was observed ns m legnl
holiday for the first time in New York.
ISO!! -Pan-American Medical Congress
was opened in Washington by President
Cleveland.
181)4 General George Stoneman. ex-G0v-ernor
of California, died nt Ruffnlo, N v
: . . a icoo
Horn auHiip' -' "--
1010 William C. Redfield resigned ns
Secretary of Commerce In the Wilson Cnbl
net. 1020 General Alvaro Ohregon was elect
it President of Mexico.
Today's Birthdays
Ex-Archduke ,'hi'rles Stephen, former
commander of the Austrian Navy, born sixty-one
yenrs ago?
Tobias Crawford Norrls, long Premier of
Manitoba, born at Rrompton, Ont., sixty
Horn AUBui" "i "--
I"'" "..
-nnpa flffO.
The in- ev. v iiniiiicey n. itrewster
Episcopal Rishop of Connecticut, horn at
Windham, Conn., seventy -three yenrs ago
Napoleon Lajole. for many venrs n stnr
player In the American Raseball League.
Iiorn nt oonsoinri, ji. i., i,oriy-hix years
ago.
An Opportunity for the President
President 1 lording ought to try his "It
must not happen again" on the race riots.
Ever so many demit citizens nppenr to
think that Judge Landis should retire .from
the Federal bench. It does not appear to
have occurred to nnybody that he mav
really repent and resign from his baseball
job instead, i
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NOW MY IDEA IS THIS
Daily Talks With Thinking Ph
Know
MAXWELL SMITH
On the Speeding Problem
PROPER regulation of the automobile
speed problem, especially In sections out
side the large cities, is the most lmportunt
and also one of the most difficult problems
thnt motor organizations hnve to handle,
necordlmc to Mnxwell Smith, secretary of
the Keystone Automobile Club
Mr. Smith believer, that while "speed
traps" are' perhaps a iiecessnry evil, owing
to economic difficulties, in the long run they
accomplish little good nnd nie. on the whole,
contrary to the spirit of justice. Reckless
driving, lie also says, Is In nianv cases us
much a mutter of common sense interpreta
tion as a strict reading of the written
words of the law.
"The Pennsylvania Vehicle Law pertaining
to speed." said Mr. Smith, "says that 'no
person shall operate a motor vehicle on the
public highways of the State recklessly or
at n rate of speed grenter than Is reasonable
and proper, having regard to the width,
traffic nnd use of the highwny, or so ns to
endanger property or the life or limb of nny
person.'
"The Supreme Court hns ruled that a
motorist is guilty of reckless driving when
the car is beyond hl inutrol nt the time the
violation of the Motor Vehicle Lnw occurred.
"There is no question that we have reck
less driving, and enough of it to necessitnte
steps on the part of authorities and others
to curb it. Rut on the whole, through co
operation and understanding, their numbers
huve been reduced In recent years.
Several Kinds of Reckless Drivers
"There are several kinds of reckless
drivers. We have the motorist who is
guilty of reckless driving because he does
not happen to be familiar with the laws
or regulations governing motor traveling in
the various sections through which he
travels. He constitutes probably the largest
part of.thls class.
"We have the motorist who deliberately
violates traffic regulations because lie hopes
to collect insurance or m somo other way
profit by his misdeinennois. And we have
the yoking fellow who runs his father's cur
and "is anxious to show off before his friends
his prowess us a driver. Helng. lu most
eases, an Inexperienced driver, he sooner or
later comes to grief or causes trouble for
somebody else.
"On the other hand, the various com
munities of the. State leave the regulation of
motor traffic up to thu magistrates and con
stabies. Ah there nre u great many com
munities in the State, it would entail an
enormous nnd practically prohibitive cost if
all these officials were put on salnry. It
would also menu that home of them would
be lazy and not properly dischnrge their
duties, nud thus throw the burden of the
State's cost of maintaining such officials on
those who would properly discharge their
duties.
"The fee system, winch exists In many
communities, is also an evil It may be a
necessary one. but it Is nevertheless n system
that is far from satisfactory.
"The maintenance of speed Imps is often
made necessary by reckless drivers who race
through communities and endanger life, limb
and property. The quarrel is not so much
with the traps us the way in which justice
sometimes suffers when they are sprung.
"As I said before, pinny iolatort of the
law sin through Ignorance. They may bo
guilty of violating one'ef the communities'
regulations by failing to blow their horns at
ccrtnln points. They may, not being expert
drivers, through tills fault find themselves
in the position, technically at least, of hav
ing violated the law.
"Thiuestion of speeding is itself often
a. very tine one. The fast driver is not
always the reckless one. To iny knowledge
there nre ninny fost drivers whose control
of their cor Is so superb that they can drive
fast nnd lit the same time avoid accidents
or bring their cor to a stop within a very
short distance, whereas nne other more
careful and slower drivers will have uli the
trouble in the world.
"Many motorists have business of such a
nature that they have n great deal of ground
to i over In a short space of time. Their
principal thought Is likely to he how they
enn reach their goal in the shortest possible
space of time. Even at night, when this
necessity is removed, we, are such creatures
of habit that such drivers are likely to con
tinue traveling In tho same way.
"Them are a great many motorists in
the State who really are not qualified to run
a car that Is, with any giiaraateaof safety
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Wr.r . .r;r.3J'.TT?
iladclphians on Subjects Tioy
Best
when jou consider the many regulations
that they must meet nnd the ninny situa
tions that arise which they cannot success
fullv meet.
"Thus on n crowded thoroughfare a good
motorist mny not hnve control of his car
simply because he cawnot control what the
other fellow is going to do. Very often the
uncertain though careful driver is as much
responsible for accidents ns though his car
had actually participated in them. He
takes up most of the road or drives in such
a way ns to compel the other fellow to de
flect his course. Other enrs or pedestrians
figuring on the drivers performing according
to Hoyli meet with accidents when they find
their confidence misplaced.
Should Ro Fair Warnings
"Tltere would not be so much difficttltv
about the matter if the magistrates anil
constables appointed or elected were nlwnvs
fnir-minded, nhle men. To be perfectly
fnir and within the spirit of absolute jus
tice, except where there has been n flagrant
violation of the lnw, the motorist should be
given the advantage of fair warning, through
signs properly located, clrcularizatlon nnd
verbal warning that certain requirements
must be met passing through a ccrtnln com
munity. This would often destroy the in
centive for sonic lunglstrutes and constables
to guard their regulations as thev should,
since their Income jmes fiom iines nnd
costs. While mobt of them nre fair in this
matter, theie are others who are not so
ethical, and there Is certalnlv a temptation
offered here thnt Is anything but wholesome
Perhaps the tnnttcr could be solved by
having these officials on salary and having
these returns turned over to the State.
"Another matter to consider is the diffi
culty entailed in many coses In having men
In these positions who are. perhaps, Ignorant
of the lnw nnd lacking lu that sense of the
fitness of things thnt i.s necessnrv in dls
charging such duties. As n result motor
ists often get -a disregard for the lnw or at
least n contempt for it .because of some of
the people who administer it.
"The solution of the whole problem of
speeding anil lecklessness, as defined bv the
law at least is n matter of co-oper'ntion
among motorists, the various automobile
organizations (which do so much in this
way), the authorities and the public It
Is this spirit of co-operation rather 'thnn
prosecution or quarreling that will icduce
these evils to a negligible minimum."
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What Is u Habit?
2. What famous history of ISngliin-I was
run ns n magazine, serlnlv
3. Who sent the first message, "What hath
Ki-aplJr"Shtr m'"r '',B Mo"" "lei
woV"i,v,,r!i.1,VouKh,,-.wnom wns ",0 ""
R' Wln, ,!'.0,min B0-,1dcsB presided over tho
fi' WS-!,LV," n,"L?r Karl Mn"'a famous
7. What body of water
Mexico"" fro' "o main portion,,'
sepaiates Lower
S Identify tin Muyns-'
J. Name two uookh by J. c, Hoin,i ,,,
.. , American i.ovtllst nnd no" U'8
10. Why were the Minute Metr so culled?
Answers to Saturday's Quiz
1. Colonel c, orgo Harvey declar.-.l in
speech delivery 1 WamM,, 'Vl
hot Americans entored th w!..?.!
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2. Ace
or nngllih
3. Kelsul, formerly of Arubla Is k-i.. .
,''. tho Moslem namo' for '''
4 T"iende"' n,eunln of ls''" Is "sur-
Tho 'r.cn,..,,!:!!!;y.l.,pn mist hi..i.
Forty square lods equnl fuin riuul
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec s t
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possession of tin. Col, .sYute T, J
pcrcentaiso of lilncUn In liro jrtlon to
l wliolw population Is 74 9 ,0
e year of the I'arls Co,,,',,',,,,,. waa
The
1871.
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'timmmms
vur to save their own skins
orillng to analyses of tho i,,. .
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hab taitis of the United si.,, J e '"",
Hrltlsh doscent-lL. ,J ,.," ,0M r of
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oceans. It separates the (ulf , , m1""
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HUMANISMS
' Ry WILLIAM ATHElRTON DU PUT
SERGEANT FRANK LANCKTON hai
for fifteen years been personnl orderly
for General Pershing.
When ho General campaigned in Min
danao, subjugating the Mohamedan Moros,
Lnuckton went with him. Later he toured
the world with his chief, went with him to
Mexico nnd to France. During all thoM
years this live, clean-cut sergeant has slept
in the quarters of his chief, has packed till
bag, has sent his laundry to the wash.
During nil the war it wns the prniAl
boast of America that General Pershinj
was the finest military figure in all the
armies. His physical condition nlvvsys
seemed to be that of n man in the pink of
training. None can better explain the cause
of this than Sergeant Lnnckton. and one
day he outlined for me the program of exer
ciso that kept the General physically fit.
Lnnckton said that all the time they were
In France he nnd the General always got up
nt f5 o'clock in the morning. Immediately
they took n half-hour of setting-up exer
cises. Then the General, despite hjs ner
nppioach to sixty years of ogc, would go
out for it run of fifteen minutes. When he
returned they would throw the medicine ball
for another half hour. This work was fast
and the sergennt, who was thirty-three,
must needs be lit or his chief would wear
him down. Finally, nt bedtime, which wn '
likely to be about 11 o'clock, the General
nlwnjs took another installment of setting
up exercises,
When Edward H. Shnughncssy, the As
sistant Postmaster General . who handles
rnllroud affairs for Mr. Hayes, first went to
work us ii messenger boy delivering tele
grams on the night shift in Chicago, the
business was so small that but ten jounj,
liters were required nfter 12 o'clock. That
only horse ears furnished transportation.
After joung Shnughncssy had been carry
ing messages for about two yeas he found
himself at dnvhreak one inornlnc talking
to the truln dispatcher down nt the Cliicnuo.
nnd Northwestern Rnllroud Station. This
train i Isputcher wns trying to get borne In
formation from a lonesome, station out on
tiie line nnd the operator was so poor nt his
keys that he could not get his message
through. -
"Why dontehn get some good telegra
phers.' asked Shaughnessy. "I con pound
tiie keys bcttern thut fella."
was but twenty-five years ago. but after
inidnight thcVuble cors were silenced and
Show inc. said the train dispatcher,
and Slmughnessy did nnd wns hired on the
hpflf ,
Thus was his climb begun up through the
position of dispatcher nhd trainmaster to
work of great responsibility.
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The other day I draped in to see Sena
tor Gilbert M. HitchcocJt. of Nebraska,
wanting n chat with him despite the coma
tosn condition nf the League of Nations, I
was asked to wait a few minutes. I sat
tight for thirty of them.
"Smnttcr?" I then asked his secretary.
Has he got a lady caller?"
"Righto." said the secretary, kinda glib
like. ".Mrs. Antoinette Funk."
Then I waited another fiftv minutes, not
Intending to. of course, and expecting to
get In any minute. Rut Mrs. Funk must
have got on the Hohen.olleni fnmllv. about
which she knows more than anybody else,
or somet other favorite theme. Then she
came out looking nil sprightly und not talked
out at all. And I wondered if politics Isn't
going to take more time from now on than
It used to.
l.'ncle Joe Cannon, nvho has something of
a reputation for Republicanism, often evi
denced considerable fricifdllncss for Daniel
' ''"l1?1; Protege of .Mr. JfcAdoo nnd under
lilni chief of tu, Itureau of Internal Reve
nue. I he venerable former Speaker gnt
Mr. Koper a sweeping Indorsement for lielns;
'"'iiinsj eflicient mnn. In The Wilson Ad
ministration. Friends of Mr. Roper crowded him fo'
nn explanation f this friendship. Finally
he told of n trip to New York, of meeting
I noie Joe on the train, of n request from
the octogenarian that he come up to lili
loom and remain until he hud got to bed
In t p ''V wnK Profuse In his thanks,
v.i i """" It. snld Mr. Roper,
Nothing pleases u good Democrat mori
than to put n U0(i Republican away "
J hey hnve been friends ever since.
The Senute Finnnce Committee is M
to be turning a favorable eye toward sal"
lux. One suggestion is to try It out for two.
yeors, This satisfies the sales-tax advo
cates. Their trnde. motto Is "Once trW
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always used,"
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